A Turkish court decides to block hundreds of specific messages mostly written by journalists. Here is the news in Turkish and here is the court decision.

Human rights advocate Eren Keskin was sentenced to 10 months of prison due to Article 301, a Turkish Penal Code article on “insulting Turkey and Turkishness” that was previously considered as “violation” by ECHR.

The police officers were sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for their role in the fatal beating of a university student.

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GTE Policy Brief (Istituto Affari Internazionali) No. 20, January 2015 by Ergun Özbudun * This paper deals with the status of the judiciary in Turkey, specifically the composition and powers of the Constitutional Court and of the High Council Judges and Public Prosecutors (HSYK) and the measures pursued by the AKP government in changing these […]